IJDC Editorial Guidelines

The IJDC publishes two main types of submission: peer-reviewed papers and general articles.

A peer-reviewed paper should be original and innovative, probably analytical in approach. It should include or reference significant evidence (whether experimental, observational or textual) to support its conclusions. Subject matter could be policy, strategic, operational, experimental, infrastructural, or tool-based, for example, but the key elements are originality and evidence. Layout and structure should be appropriate for the disciplinary area.

A general article is descriptive of some relevant event, activity, research project in progress, or approach. It may present a proposal for an architecture, an implementation, a service, or a project, for example. General articles may also be opinion pieces, reviews, or surveys of existing work in some particular area. Most importantly, general articles must, in the opinion of the editorial team, convey information of value to the readership. A degree of light review may be required to ensure relevance and completeness, or to eliminate bias.

IJDC Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

The IJDC is committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of digital curation across a wide range of sectors. In order to maintain high quality standards, the journal is guided by the following principles.

The editors are responsible for deciding which papers and articles should be published, with ultimate responsibility resting with the Editor-in-Chief. The decisions of the editors are guided by the Editorial Board; in particular, no submission may be published as an IJDC peer-reviewed paper without first receiving an acceptance recommendation from at least one member of the Editorial Board. The editors evaluate a submission on the basis of its intellectual content alone; this includes its compliance with legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. An editor must not evaluate a paper of which he or she is also an author.

Reviewers should not consider documents in which they have a conflict of interest with any author or organization involved. They must not use information received through peer review for personal advantage, or further disclose the submission without authorization from an editor.

Authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and that where other materials (including data) are used the sources are appropriately cited. Papers submitted for peer review should not have been published in their current or a very similar form before, other than as a pre-print in a repository or as a conference paper with limited circulation beyond the conference attendees. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable. Should authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their submission, they should inform the editors promptly.

Any data collected by the authors and underlying their submission must be placed in a custodial environment that gives an appropriate degree of assurance about its longevity. The data should be given a permanent and resolvable identifier, which should appear in the submission, and made openly accessible wherever possible.

Papers and articles submitted to the IJDC remain confidential until published. Papers and articles not accepted for publication are never used for other purposes without the express written consent of the author. A submission not accepted for publication as a peer-reviewed paper may at the editors' discretion be published as a general article if it nevertheless conveys information of value to the readership.

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